Here is some background information regarding Lord Soley’s Home Education Bill as set out in this FOI from Hertfordshire CC, including correspondence from AEHEP in April 2017 and notes from the meeting with Lord Soley and others at the House of Lords in October 2017.
Here are some emails to and from Kent County Council regarding Lord Soley’s Home Education Bill covering the period 6 October 2017 to 17 November 2017. FOI LINK Continue reading
In the speech introducing his Home Education Bill on Friday November 24th 2017, Lord Soley said “two of the councils that have been most helpful to me on this are Hampshire and Kent.”
What really happened yesterday in the House of Lords and what does it mean for home
educators?
This is a summary of home education mentioned in Ofsted children’s services inspection reports from January to August 2017
Kent County Council has asked for comments on its new elective home education web pages Continue reading
Update 1, April 28th: I’ve spoken to barrister Ian Dowty about the draft policy and he says the draft policy as stands is unlawful in identifying categories rather than treating each family as individual Continue reading
EDITED APRIL 21ST. THE NEW KCC HOME EDUCATION WEB PAGE WAS MADE PUBLIC IN ERROR AND IS NOT YET AVAILABLE. HOME EDUCATORS IN KENT WILL RECEIVE FURTHER INFORMATION IN DUE COURSE. Continue reading
On January 28th 2015 Kent County Council Cabinet approved a new elective home education [EHE] policy. The policy can be found here (extract from the Agenda and Reports Pack for the Cabinet meeting on January 28th) Continue reading
